A fast food chain in Japan is offering whale burgers, in an attempt to rid itself of overstock from past hunting expeditions.

Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant chain in the city of Hakodate, began selling the burgers Thursday for $3.50.

Restaurant manager Miku Oh compares the texture of the meat as somewhere between beef and fish.

During a Wednesday meeting of the International Whaling Commission in South Korea, a resolution was passed urging Japan to cut back on the amount of whales caught; a blow dealt to Japanese plans of expanding its scientific whale hunt to an annual catch of 900 minke whales.

Miku Oh says the whales are killed for experiments, not their meat, which, at one point, was a school lunch staple before a whaling moratorium was introduced in 1986.

According to a restaurant worker, many tourists and children enjoy the whale burgers.